Biggest problems w/ D - strings

[Chris Nicholson-Sauls]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> "Deewiant" <deewiant.doesnotlike.spam at gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:f9rjbi$1sav$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> Ever since Issue 1268 was fixed in 1.017, you can just write:
>>
>> char[32] abc = 0;
>>
> 
> I always wished that that were possible, but never knew if it was legal :D 
> 
> 

Oh it is, but there's no equivelant one-liner for dynamic arrays.  Instead you have to:

auto var = new int[len];
var[] = 42;

Or using Cashew:

import cashew.utils.Array;
// ...
auto var = repeat(42, len);

Which is actually just a wrapper around the above example.  It'd be nice if there were 
some way to specify an initializor for a dynamic array's elements in place, that didn't 
rely on using a typedef.

typedef int _MyInt42 = 42;
auto var = cast(int[]) new _MyInt42[len];

o_O

-- Chris Nicholson-Sauls